Illusion Knitting

Written by Josh

In the spring of 2011, my friend Anindita Basu Sempere showed me a scarf that she’d knitted for her husband Andrew. At first glance it looked like an ordinary striped scarf… but when you looked at it from an angle, a skull appeared. Wow! I immediately asked her to write a how-to on “Illusion Knitting” for UNBORED. She did, and it appears on pp. 144–145.

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UPDATE: Whoops! The pattern illustration we published in UNBORED doesn’t quite match Anindita’s instructions. Here are a few amendments:

Anindita designed and knitted a scarf for UNBORED — it’s a “ghost” from the 1980s videogame Pac-Man. (At least, that’s what I’ve been assuming it is.) After bothering Anindita for months to take photos of the Pac-Man scarf, we ended up asking illustrator Heather Kasunick to draw pictures for the article. In other words, we didn’t use the photos after all that hassle. Sorry, Anindita! Here they are now: